Bottle.



PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904.

J. G. SWINDELL.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 14, 1904.

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PATENT FFICE.

J AMES G. SIVINDELL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND- BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,435, dated October25, 1904.

Application filed June 14, 1904. Serial No. 212,532. (No model.)

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Baltimore, State ofMaryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in' Bottles, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates tobottles, and more especially to the construction of bottles and stoppersused in conjunction therewith, adapted for containing delicate perfumes,toiletwaters, and other like liquids, though of course it is notspecifically limited to such use. In the bottles heretofore employed forsuch perfumes, toilet-waters, and the like it has been necessary toemploy in connection with the stopper a kid covering or "washer, as itmay be termed, to protect and cover the neck of the bottle between theflange of the stopper and said neck. This has been found necessarybecause of the finish that is required in such bottles the stoppers forwhich have not been ground, and in order to protect the fin' ish andpreserve the appearance required by the trade such kid covering has beenfound necessary. I have discovered that this kid covering may bedispensed with while still furnishing the desired appearance andprotection of the finish of the bottle and neck proper and, moreover,impart to the bottle the appearance of a ground-in stopper.

My invention therefore consists in the novel combination of bottle neckand stopper hereinafter described and claimed with reference to theaccompanying drawings, and more par-' ticularly pointed out in the claimappended to this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical section of bottle,showing my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;and Fig. 3 is a similar view to Fig. 1, showing a modified form ofstopper.

Referring now to the drawings, wherein the same and similar referencecharacters designate the same or corresponding parts in all the viewsthereof, a bottle 1 is provided with the usual neck 2, in which isformed a mouth provided with a shallow recess or groove 3, the

depth of which is determined by the thickness of thelaterally-projecting flange 4 of the stopper 5. In Figs. 1 and 2 thestopper 5 is cylindrical and provided with a dropping device whichincludes a tubular washer 6, made in accordance with Patent No. 716,806,granted to H. O. Brawner December 23, 1902; but it is to be noted thatmy invention may be applied to any form of stopperas, for example, asolid stopper 5, Fig. 3, in which the tubular dropper-stopper givesplace to the solid stopper 5. The flange a is made of a thicknesssubstantially the same as the depth of the groove 3, so that when thestopper is in place the said flange will rest flush with the uppersurface of the bottle-neck.

- As a result of this construction the stopper has the appearance of aground-in stopper whose finish corresponds to the finish of the bottle,and the kid covering is wholly dispensed with, thereby decreasingmaterially the cost of manufacture of such bottles and stoppers and atthe same time greatly improving the appearance of the same, thusrendering the bottle more acceptable to the trade than heretofore.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described improvements in bottles, consisting in thecombination with abottle having a neck provided with a shallow groove orrecess at its upper end, of a glass stopper having alaterally-projecting flange of a thickness substantially the same as thedepth of said ,groove or recess, whereby the said flange is flush withthe upper surface of the neck and imparts thereto the appearance of aground-in stopper when in place to close the mouth of the bottle,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES G. SWINDELL.

Witnesses:

JOHN DUNNOCK, ROMIE SMITH.

